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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 2h

Did it say "all ages"? As in ALL AGES, not the hyper-restricted narrow age band of RFKJ and older? Huh. Who could've predicted it? Probably everyone who did dbl blind placebo trials, Drs, and the ACIP board RFKJ fired.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 11h

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 2h

All of these!

Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 4h

Periodic reminders:

Vaccines save lives & parents need discussions with trusted professionals, not propaganda.

Transgender children & their families need evidence based support, not stigma.

Autistic children & their families need evidence based support, not conspiracy theories.

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Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · 7h

The United States gives approximately 6.6 million doses of MMR per year. Each single dose vial contains 1.76 grams of glass, rubber, and aluminum. Add another 3 grams each for the syringe and needle.

This one change will add 62.8 metric tons of SHARPS BIOHAZARD WASTE per year.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7h

The MMR shot is safe and effective, and there is no credible evidence otherwise.

Breaking MMR into three shots means 3x more copays at the doctor’s office, 3x more hours of missed work, 3x more bummed out kiddos, and probably more than 3x as many kids who aren’t fully vaccinated.

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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 2d

"Also, I think health insurance and all insurance is a scam, just be clear!" -Rep MTG

This sounds like a call for single payer/Medicare for all. There's no way to avoid the scam of health insurance otherwise.

Sickening how some ppl can't care until it happens to *them.* Not one iota of sympathy.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Marjorie Taylor Greene just realized her adult children’s insurance premiums would double if the Republican cuts to ACA go through.

She’s broken party lines and is siding with the Dems.

How many more MAGA people are out there like her? Who don’t realize these cuts will financially devastate them?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes

Greene said she's "not a fan" of Obamacare but complained that her "own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE" if Congress ignores the issue.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jacob Gardenswartz @reporterjacobg.bsky.social · 2d

Just in: The U.S. Supreme Court DECLINES to hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal - meaning her conviction and 20-year criminal sentence remain in place.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 3d

Is it good when federal judges have to schedule Sunday night 10 pm hearings about absurd military invasions of their state.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.

Date Filed
Oct 5, 2025
Description
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SCHEDULING ORDER: This Court, having received Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and request for Expedited Hearing, ECF 59, sets a hearing by Telephonic Conference at 7:00
p.m. tonight, October 5, 2025, before Judge Karin J. Immergut. Access information for "LISTEN ONLY" phone number for the Hearing. Telephone Number: 1-571-353-2301 (toll-free 1-833-
990-9400); Guest Meeting ID: 812-980-
324#. Note: If dropped from the conference, please rejoin the conference.
For complete conference connection instructions and etiquette guidelines, refer to ord.uscourts.gov/cms. Ordered on 10/5/25 by Judge Karin J. Immergut. (jy)
(Entered: 10/05/2025)

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

HAPPENING NOW: Emergency hearing before Judge Karin Immergut on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment.

I plan to listen in for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along (court remote access technology permitting...) ⬇️🧵

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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 3d

I was just a bystander, but I ran to this man, told others on scene to call 911 and I started compressions. Life is fragile. Look out for motorcycles (and don't drive them). He was not much older than me.

And above all: Take first aid & CPR classes.

www.azfamily.com/2025/10/05/m...

Motorcyclist dies after crash in Mesa

A motorcyclist is dead after being involved in a crash Saturday night.

www.azfamily.com

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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 4d

I got an MMR two years ago when I went to Europe because it was easier than getting titers done. Not regretting that decision. Regretting that it was such a good one.

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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 4d

This is incomprehensible, and yet totally predictable. I hate what this portends for my kids, and all Americans. This really highlights the decline of the United States in a way that is extremely foreboding. #Momvocate

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d

The U.S. is probably going to lose our elimination status for measles in 2026.

Anyone tired of so much “winning”?

MAHA is a toxic infection of the brain that spreads via social media and results in the rejection of scientific fact, followed by disease and death.

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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 5d

Also hold a moment for parents of girls who are taking them to the "Party Like a Showgirl" movie this weekend.

a woman says it 's me hi while standing in front of a window

Alt: Taylor Swift says "it 's me, hi" while standing in front of a different version of herself in her doorway. It's a clip from the antihero music video.

media.tenor.com

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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 6d

This is how I taught my kids my phone number. I remembered my dad's original work number b/c my mom made it into a song. Right up until I co-opted it w/my own number to teach my kiddo.

It *really* works!

Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 6d

862-8600!
862-8600!
Don't program 911 into the speed dial on your phone
and dont call for directions
or just to check the system
(trust us, it works!)
for URgency without EMERGency call 862-8600

the first time & the next time i needed non emergency services in Nashville it was right in my brain

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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 6d

Every day I was pregnant with my two very wanted pregnancies, I thought about this. How "lucky" I was to be informed, have a Dr, and not worry about a call to her bankrupting us before our kids were born. Every. Day. America should be ashamed to allow this.

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 6d

Pregnancy outcomes are correlated with socioeconomics.

The people most at risk are often the same people who can't spend days searching for someone who will vaccinate them, or pay out of pocket, or generally navigate the morass, Dr. @kevinault.bsky.social of ACOG's immunization work group told me.

Covid Shots Protect Pregnant Women, but Getting Them Now Can Be Hard

www.nytimes.com

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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 6d

Based on my recollection of his tenure while I was there...this assessment feels spot on.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 6d

My comments with @celinegounder.com @cbsnews.com exposing the corruption in the MAHA wellness influencer industry and those who seek to destroy the health of our nation’s children for greed and personal gain

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...

Trump's call to split up the MMR childhood vaccine revives long-settled debate

President Trump's suggestion that the combination measles, mumps and rubella vaccine should be separated marks a sharp break from decades of immunization practice.

www.cbsnews.com

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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine if 1 of every 100 people boarding a flight had their legs horribly broken because the airline carelessly closed the door. What should the airline be required to do to fix the situation the AIRLINE ITSELF CAUSED? Paying for your operation/care to fix your legs is the *least* it should do.

Reuters @reuters.com · 9d

USDOT will not enforce Biden wheelchair passenger protection rule reut.rs/4pMMWy0

USDOT will not enforce Biden wheelchair passenger protection rule

The U.S. Transportation Department said on Monday that it will not enforce key provisions of a Biden administration rule issued in December requiring new consumer protections for disabled passengers using wheelchairs.

reut.rs

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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 6d

If a person can't trust their husband to talk to other women without cheating, then there is something fundamentally wrong with the relationship. And it's not other people calling him...

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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 6d

This is why when you come in for chest pain, difficulty breathing, an accident, they whisk you right back without a wait and without taking insurance info. EMTALA saves American lives.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6d

👇👇

Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 6d

Also, people who can wait have to wait. People whose condition is so serious they don't have time to wait, well, my husband got whisked back before they took our insurance info down. (He's fine now, but that was definitely an eerie moment).

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

ER wait times are going to be much longer when 13.7 million Americans lose their Medicaid coverage over the next decade due to this administration’s billionaire tax cuts, not to mention the higher premiums from expiring ACA subsidies, the thousands of jobs being lost every month, & massive inflation

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 8d

It’s the responsibility and the duty of anyone with a public platform to keep reminding everybody that civilisations flourish by collaboration not hostility and prejudice. This includes intellectuals who keep to their lanes in generating knowledge. Make no mistake, this is absolutely your lane.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7d

RFK Jr. still hasn’t signed off on the ACIP recommendations for COVID19 vaccines. It’s been almost 2 weeks.

The impact of his continued maliciousness is that these shots still aren’t available to families for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program, which about half of US kids use.

Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay

Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids.

www.statnews.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8d

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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